Modernizing R&A Data Products With Python

Bobae Kang and Yizi (Winnie) Huang
Center for Criminal Justice Data and Analytics

R&A Staff Meeting
August 14, 2018

Agenda

• Background
• Design and Implementation
• Showcase
• Path forward

Background

Motivation

• Time-consuming
• Difficult to maintain
• Suboptimal tools
• Outmoded data format
• Overreliance on a single individual

Design and implementation

What we did

• Automation
• Modular and flexible design
• Fast and efficient tools
• Machine-friendly format
• Potential division of labor

Automation

Modularity

Modularity

Efficiency

Format (old)

Format (old)

Format (old)

Format (old)

Format (new)

Format (new)

Format (new)

Format (new)

Division of labor

Division of labor

Showcase

Path forward

Thank you!